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Heath, Ryan D.; Anderson, Charity; Turner, Ashley Cureton; Payne, Charles M. – Urban Education, 2022
Increased political and research interest in extracurricular activities stems, in part, from the claim that these programs especially benefit disadvantaged youth. However, little literature has synthesized studies across types of disadvantage to assess this claim. This article reviews research on disadvantaged youth in extracurricular programs,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Extracurricular Activities, Gender Differences, Immigrants
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Antonowicz, Dominik; Wasielewski, Krzysztof; Domalewski, Jaroslaw – Tertiary Education and Management, 2022
This paper explores the impact of the contraction of the mass HE system (after 2005) on rural youth who represent the biggest disadvantages group in Polish higher education. It provides empirical evidence that the system contraction is the major reason for widening access for rural youth to public (prestigious) higher education institutions. By…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Access to Education, Higher Education
Kim Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: To fill a gap in literature, this phenomenological study explored the experience of teaching the arts online in Title I schools. Theoretical Framework: The theoretical framework for this study was based on the Studio Habits of Mind (SHoMs). For the purposes of this study, the researcher focused on three of the SHoMs: (a) stretch and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Online Courses, Disadvantaged Youth, Creativity
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Christopher R. Gonzales; Alexis Merculief; Megan M. McClelland; Simona Ghetti – Child Development, 2022
Children's ability to monitor subjective feelings of uncertainty (i.e., engage in uncertainty monitoring) is a central metacognitive skill. In the current study, we examined the development of uncertainty monitoring as well as its relations with vocabulary and executive function development in children (N = 137, 52% female) from predominately…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Metacognition, Executive Function, Vocabulary Development
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Ka-Yan Fung; Lik-Hang Lee; Pan Hui; Shenghui Song – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has suspended physical classes and influenced students from underprivileged groups more seriously due to their poor living conditions and digital disadvantages. To understand the impact of the constrained learning, we conducted a study on game-based learning to examine the effectiveness of computer-aided and autonomous…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disadvantaged Youth
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Sonal Nakar; Richard G. Bagnall – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: Vocational education and training (VET) in Australia has for some time been driven by an agenda of "reasonable adjustment", in which practices are modified to ensure equitable access and participation by disadvantaged students. However, the growing marketization of VET has instead encouraged the use of more flexible approaches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Inclusion, Disadvantaged Youth
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Marleen Reichgelt – History of Education, 2024
Despite a visual turn in the field of history of education, including visual sources has far from become standard practice when writing histories of education or when considering children's voices from the past. Yet photographs can be especially fruitful when considering marginalised children who left few traces in other records. Building upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Photography, Visual Aids
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Will Davis; Daniel Kreisman; Tareena Musaddiq – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
We estimate the effect of universal free school meal access through the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) on child body mass index (BMI). Through the CEP, schools with high percentages of students qualified for free or reduced-priced meals can offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. With administrative data from a large school district…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, Eligibility
European Education and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2023
Experiencing transnational mobility during education and training is a major boost in the life of many young people. It helps them grow personally and academically, it broadens their social networks and develops their intercultural and language skills. Learner mobility also impacts education systems and individual educational institutions, causing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Bates, Gareth; Connolly, Steve – Curriculum Journal, 2023
The notion of cultural capital, defined in its Arnoldian sense, of "the best that has been thought and said", has been at the centre of the Conservative government's education policy for the last few years in England. While it is clear that this version of cultural capital--different from the sense in which it was used by Pierre…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Bilge Selçuk; Cansel Karakas; I?pek Tuncay; Beril Can – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
In this paper, we have a quick look at the profile of developmental research in terms of its study samples, and then turn our attention to the findings of research on the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, suggesting a notable increase in the number of people experiencing significant economic difficulties and a widening gap between the wealthy…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Disadvantaged Environment, Developing Nations
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Sek Ying Chair; Tin Yan Sit; Wai Ching Ng; Yuen Ying Mak; Kwun Hang Li – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a social service project for disadvantaged students through pretest-posttest study design and qualitative interviews. All students joining the service project were invited to participate in this study. Data on personal growth and academic performance (exam scores and class ranks) before and after joining…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Secondary School Students
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Juárez Mendoza, Andrea Nikté – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2020
As a former youth worker and community organizer of over 20 years, I have inhabited multiple roles in movement building at various stages of my own development. This experience has given me a unique perspective from which to view the relationship between self, community, and movement building as it unfolds. One of the many lessons I've learned…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Personal Narratives, Art Expression, Memory
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Martin, Diris; Mponji, Doris – Childhood Education, 2021
Mentorship from within the community holds great promise for transforming the lives of young people and helping them to take full advantage of educational opportunities. This article discusses the CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) Learner Guide program, which provides mentors and role models trained by a pan-African network of women leaders.
Descriptors: Mentors, Womens Education, Role Models, Volunteers
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Hsiao, Yu-Yu; Qi, Cathy Huaqing; Hoy, Robert; Dale, Philip S.; Stump, Glenda S.; Davison, Megan Dunn; Xia, Yinglin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Preschool Language Scales---Fifth Edition (PLS-5 English) among preschool children from low--socioeconomic status (SES) families. Method: The PLS-5 was administered individually to 169 3- to 4-year-old children enrolled in Head Start programs. We carried out a Mokken scale analysis…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Psychometrics, Preschool Children, Low Income Students
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